{"id":1474,"date":"2026-03-30T01:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:22:30","slug":"shell-game-how-kentucky-lawmakers-pass-new-language-with-little-public-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Shell game: How Kentucky lawmakers pass new language with little public input"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpm.org\/news\/2026-03-23\/shell-game-how-kentucky-lawmakers-pass-new-language-with-little-public-input\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Shell game: How Kentucky lawmakers pass new language with little public input\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/bca2c0b\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4032x2117+0+454\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4e%2Fd1%2Fcc68741a4e548d262cd123908424%2Fimg-2512.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.lpm.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Shell game: How Kentucky lawmakers pass new language with little public input<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">If you picked a random bill filed in the General Assembly this year, there\u2019s more than a one in ten chance the original version would be devoid of meaningful content. They\u2019re called shell bills and here\u2019s why Kentucky lawmakers use them so much.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}